Destiny: Age of Triumph

[Dark One]

Originally Posted by ClockShot First trip into the level 32 PoE throws you in the deep end big time. Unless you bang out some a couple of nightfalls and get lucky in the level 28 PoE and get some etheric light, you got your hands full. First foray with the lfg app, too. 1 guy had a mic and knew what he was doing. Other was mute and hard to deal with. Got all the way to the end before we got tired. Anyway, good to have either friends with coordination or some suped up exotics. Lesson learned.

This week is pretty rough. It throwing you immediately into a round with a level 28 boss--which is now all 32--is pretty brutal. Mechanics are the same, sure, but it's definitely a sudden, sharp step up in difficulty because of the level increase. Vex are generally rough anyway because of Hobgoblins instagibbing you, especially when trying to get mines, so three of the four rounds this week being in there doesn't help either. To top it all off, the end boss this week definitely requires a lot of coordination. Previous weeks have had a boss that just requires you to stay off the ground as much as possible for ten seconds to avoid the entire ground being damaging or a boss that cycles through elements on his shield and recharges it.

This week, you have to make sure you can communicate to ensure someone has the Jailbreaker buff--which also requires picking the god damn mob out of a pile of Vex and not killing it too early--dealing with an infinite flood of Vex, and trying to get damage in on a boss who has a lot of cover.

I promise this week was a bit of an outlier. It's probably fair to expect everyone to have a mic and to communicate, but other weeks have been pretty easily pick-uppable. I got through this week with a solidly communicating group of people I've never spoken to before or since.

I get by okay with Icebreaker, since it lets me chip away without having to run around and grab ammo. People always want Gjallahorn in there, and it certainly makes things easier, but it's not mandatory.

This is a rough week, for sure, but you should give it another shot and hopefully find two people that can actually communicate. If not or it doesn't go well, don't get too discouraged, this week is kind of rough.